Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4305548 | Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases | 2015 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Venous malformations (VMs) are the most common vascular malformations, forming 44% to 64% of all vascular malformations. We report a case of a patient suffering from unilateral dermatomal VM. The VM was strictly confined to the right C6 dermatome. We propose that unilateral dermatomal VM is a prime example of somatic mosaicism in vascular development. Unilateral dermatomal VM seems to have a similar pathogenesis to the Sturge-Weber syndrome and may also be caused by somatic mutations disrupting the development of skin veins.
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Authors
Elisabeth Smolle, David Benjamin Lumenta, Johannes Haybaeck, Thomas Gary, Marianne Brodmann, Philipp Eller,